Do you remember when Killing Joke sang ‘eighties, I’m living in the eighties’? No, probably not. Only if you are as old as I am. Being a Goth in England in the 80s was a great time. All that hair. Black hair. And piercings before they were a fashion a accessory. Anyhow, those days are long gone (as you will see in the image in step 1), but I think it’s time to bring them back, albeit digitally. So when you’re ready, let’s start the Gothic makeover.

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CRTL+O to open your photo in P’shop. If you take a shot specifically for this, make sure it’s at a high resolution and you don’t cut the head off.

One of the great, fun aspects of Photoshop is being able to create your own photos from elements of other pictures. In this new tutorial, I’m going to be making an underwater scene.

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The most important part of any photo montage or ‘chop’ is finding good sources. There are many stock photo sites out there and lots are free. But the best way to get good source images is to take out your camera and shoot them yourself. Unfortunately, in this tutorial I have no intention of getting my camera wet, so these will have to do. The first job (and probably the most boring) is to cut out the images you are going to use. There are different ways of doing this depending on the needs of your photo. Here, I’m going to be using the pen tool, as there are lots of angular lines and, more importantly, no hair!Read the rest of this entry »

Learn how to make creepy photo effect using Filter Effects and some Brushes.

1. Open this image (I found it at yotophoto but you can use your own) and duplicate it. Now set #000000 as Foreground Color and #b62222 as Background Color then with image duplicated go to Filter/Sketch/Photocopy and change it to the following values:Read the rest of this entry »

In this tutorial I will teach you the rest of composition in photography. In part one of my photography composition guide I taught you about angle and the Rule of Thirds. In this tutorial I will each you about using landscape or portrait, cropping and more. So let’s get learning.

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Basically in this tutorial you will be converting a regular skateboarding image into a great looking poster advertisement that people outside of the internet life like! The picture above is a result in what we will be making from the picture below.

In this tutorial you will learn how to cut out a piece of the picture and turn the rest of the picture black & white to turn the focus point to the colored person.

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Above is the original image that I will be working with in this tutorial. I will be turning all of the picture black and white, but leaving the kid the same color as before. Start off by finding your own picture. I found mine at www.sxc.hu.

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In this tutorial you will learn how to make a unique looking photo effect that not many people know about yet. This will evolve soon in the future to many other designers. With this, you will be able to turn regular old photos into high definition photographs. All we are going to do is simply sharpen the image quallity to make it look more realistic.